Secrets So Sinister
By R.A. Jetter
“Awwww man, I’m not going to believe that!” Tommy said. “Just because you found these old bones doesn’t mean a ten foot green glowing snake ate it.” He broke off a stick, moved closer to the bones and poked at them.
“Yeah!” Dianna said. “I won’t either.”
Tommy kicked leaves out of the way. “Besides, there aren’t any guts left laying around here anywhere.”
“Won’t be,” Sammy said, “snakes swallow whatever they eat whole… snakes can’t digest bones, then they throw up and the bones come back out.”
Tommy picked up the skull of the rabbit and pointed it at Dianna. She screamed backing away. “”Who told you that? That’s not true!” He tossed the skull to Sammy.
The backpack slipped off his arms. It fell to the warm sun-soaked sand. Kneeling, he pulled back the top of it and pushed the skull into the bottom corner. Scooping up the large feet bones, he placed them carefully next to the skull.
Tommy banged the stick over the rib cage, tossing the bones helter-skelter. “What’re you going to do with those?”
“I’m taking them home. I’m going to study them under my microscope.”
“Why?” Dianna asked.
“To see if there’s any snake saliva left on them.” Sammy was confident both his friends would believe that. He grabbed the rib cage before Tommy delivered the next blow.
“No way! You don’t know how long these have been laying here… and you don’t know that snake ate it.”
“So? I don’t need to know,” Sammy said, “My microscope is really powerful, it’ll show me just about anything left on these bones.”
“And then what? What’s that going to prove?” Tommy asked, looking around the shore for more bones. “It don’t mean your giant snake ate it… or was even around here, like you said.”
“I saw it!”
“You really did?” Dianna asked, her eyes wide, astounded there could be such a thing. She twirled her blond pony tails around her nose, trying to block the smell.
“No man, you didn’t see it. You just made this whole thing up so’s we’d come down here with you,” Tommy said. “You’re too scared to come down here by yourself. There’s no such thing as a ten foot green glowing snake around this lake. I’m asking my Dad!”
(Continued…) “You’d better not,” Sammy said in a tone of voice that he knew more than Tommy did. “You know your Dad gets angry about you being down here by the water.”
“Yeah well, I know there ain’t no such glowing ten foot snake around here!”
“Sure there is… , I’ll prove it.” Sammy said.
“How? How can you?”